Example sentences of "be by " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be by way of theory , or on more matter-of-fact lines about technique or such questions as composition . |
| 2 | In fact , those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be , believe they ought to be , or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards . |
| 3 | Payment at today 's price may be by a single lump sum or by instalments . |
| 4 | He rubs it absently , accosting strangers in the street , seeking out a friend and within minutes exclaiming that he wants to be by himself , watching children wistfully , accusing wellwishers of persecuting him with their kindness ; until at last he explodes on the brink of confession in a terrible universal cry : ‘ Oh , if only I were alone and nobody loved me , and if only I had never loved anyone ! ’ |
| 5 | EVERYONE I have spoken to about the New Zealand tour of Wales agrees that , if they are going to be beaten by anyone , it will be by one of the clubs rather than by the national side . |
| 6 | the need to expand when domestic expansion is not possible ( expansion in this case would probably be by acquisition ) ; |
| 7 | one happened to be by our client Paul Brady , and ‘ Private Dancer ’ was written by Mark Knopfler . |
| 8 | partly this was because the current account deficit appears much smaller in current ( 1980s ) data than it was thought to be by contemporaries ; mainly , it would seem , because the invisible position was actually much better than was then realized . |
| 9 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 10 | These priorities imply , on the domestic front , the attempt to maintain a continuing powerful role for the state , the economic dominance of a fairly small elite and an indifference to the welfare of rural peasant farmers , complicated as this may be by political loyalties to certain tribal groups . |
| 11 | This might be by parental design or due to natural events . |
| 12 | Until then , resupply to the front line units will be by airdrop ( parachute ) resupply . |
| 13 | This will be by helicopter and Hercules aircraft , taking less than half a day for the majority of the fighting troops . |
| 14 | Kurtag is Ligeti 's opposite — a divergent musical thinker whose every new work might be by another composer , were it not for the extreme compression that is constant to his style . |
| 15 | In consequence , European collaboration is fraught and costly : operational requirements are made more complex than they ought to be by the need for compromise ; sharing development leads to mismatches of components that have to be corrected late on in programmes ; and divided production and assembly increases overheads and puts up costs . |
| 16 | Control would be by ‘ Dual Key ’ . |
| 17 | And should an original and lovely ‘ Samuel Palmer ’ sketch or ‘ Vermeer ’ canvas be any less valued when it turns out to be by Tom Keating or Henricus van Meegaeren ? |
| 18 | Thus all land , however tied up it may be by complex entails and other interests , has since 1882 been alienable by the tenant for life under his statutory powers . |
| 19 | The old man said they were love songs he had written when young , but they seemed to be by Robert Burns as far as Nigel could remember . |
| 20 | It can be a time when a sensitive friend can make sure the bereaved person is especially thought of , so that they are not alone if they find it hard to be by themselves on those days . |
| 21 | He would not need above four days ' leave from them and since Oreste is now or will be by then nearly three which is the age Pen first travelled at I can not see any reason why he need inconvenience the party . |
| 22 | ‘ If we are ever to have a real modern church , it must be by adopting a fresh church arrangement . ’ |
| 23 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 24 | When Mrs Thatcher decided to break the miners ' strike , if need be by force , there was no doubt where I stood ; or at the time of the Falklands , or the Suez operation against the Egyptian dictator , Colonel Nasser : foursquare behind the Tories . |
| 25 | An article purporting to be by Richard Littlejohn , the Sun 's star columnist , headed ‘ Who Gives a Monkeys ’ , is dressed up to look like an advertisement . |
| 26 | Up until that time , every form of documentation and writing had to be by manuscript , but in 1476 , Mr. William Caxton set up his printing press , at Westminster . |
| 27 | Furthermore transport from one place to another could be by the River Thames rather than the roads , which were not always safe and often impassable in some weather conditions . |
| 28 | Return flight between UK and overseas airport ( unless a self-drive holiday or Lake Garda Discovery tour is booked , and on coach/air combinations travel in one direction will be by luxury coach ) . |
| 29 | In regards to its nature , we shall be principally occupied , not with what Mind is felt to be by its possessor , but rather with its operations as apparent to an onlooker . |
| 30 | Almost the last act of the decade was the decision to wind up the Artisans , originally planned to be by December 1984 ; although in 1980 it was brought forward to 1981 . |